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• I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.
  -- Edmund Burke (1729-1797) -- Speech on the Conciliation of America, Vol. ii, p. 136...
• My vigour relents,--I pardon something to the spirit of liberty.
  -- Edmund Burke (1729-1797) -- Speech on the Conciliation of America, Vol. ii, p. 118...
• A wise and salutary neglect. -- Edmund Burke (1729-1797) -- Speech on the Conciliation of America, Vol.
  ii, p. 117...
• The concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear.
  -- Edmund Burke (1729-1797) -- Speech on the Conciliation of America, Vol. ii, p. 108...
• The march of the human mind is slow. -- Edmund Burke (1729-1797) -- Speech on the Conciliation of America, Vol.
  ii, p. 149...
• And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them.
  -- Edmund Burke (1729-1797) -- Reflections on the Revolution in France, -- Thoughts and Details on Scarcity, Vol....
• War," says Machiavel, "ought to be the only study of a prince
  and by a prince he means every sort of state, however constituted....
• Early and provident fear is the mother of safety. -- Edmund Burke (1729-1797) -- Reflections on the Revolution in France, -- Speech on the Petition of the Unitarians, Vol.
  vii, p. 50...
• Fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren.
  -- Edmund Burke (1729-1797) -- Speech on the Conciliation of America, Vol. ii, p. 116...